John Cotton Smith

John Cotton Smith (12 February 1765-7 December 1845) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-CN) from 17 November 1800 to August 1806 (succeeding Roger Griswold and preceding James Davenport) and Governor of Connecticut from 25 October 1812 to 8 May 1817 (succeeding Griswold and preceding Oliver Wolcott Jr.).

Biography
John Cotton Smith was born in Sharon, Connecticut in 1765, and he became a lawyer in 1787. He went on to serve in the State House in 1793, 1796, and 1800, in the US House of Representatives from 1800 to 1806, as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1811 to 1813, and as Governor from 1812 to 1817. The last Federalist governor of Connecticut, he died in 1845.